He got a tan over break. I used to tell him he was so pale he looked like a marshmallow. He hated that I compared him to food. I told him that's what he got for calling me caramel. It shut him up.

At an early age I learned that people make mistakes, and you have to decide if their mistakes are bigger than your love for them.

I realized that if I don't like something, I can change it. If I don't feel comfortable with something, then I have a voice to say it's not cool.

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I'd like to know.

life is a deep sleep of which love is the dream

Life gives you lots of chances to screw up which means you have just as many chances to get it right.

The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.

Democracy is also a single ideology, and, like all such templates, it has its limits. what works in a legislature might not work in a corporation.

A good leader needs to stand behind his or her followers as often as he or she needs to stand in front of them.

Feeling special is the worst kind of cage a person can build for himself.

We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.